Calm, often very hazy and frequently brutally hot - balmy or barmy depending on your outlook on these things. Weirdly, the sea had almost as much going for it today as the land, with 141
Balearic Shearwaters, 9
Arctic Skuas. 3
Teal and a
Great Skua amongst others through over the glassy waters off the Bill. A lot of the land's numbers were overhead, with 360
Swallows, 140
Yellow Wagtails, 140
Siskins, 82
Tree Pipits, 61
Meadow Pipits, 37
Lesser Black-backed Gulls and singles of
Merlin,
Hobby and
Golden Plover amongst the miscellany on the move over the Bill. There was a fair bit of variety on the ground but numbers remained woefully short of optimistic expectations, with 4
Whinchats, a
Reed Warbler and a
Pied Flycatcher the only faintly interesting less common migrants at the Bill.
One of the 2 lingering Bar-tailed Godwits were amongst the almost unchanged wader selection at Ferrybridge today © Pete Saunders: